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Musk said in a press event that he wants the brain-machine interface developed by Neuralink to solve problems like anxiety and addiction. We don’t know enough about the brain for that to be feasible yet.
On October 30, 2021, The Verge won a New York Emmy Award in best short-form content for its health documentary, "We Went Into The Sewers To Track the Coronavirus." The National Academy of...
What actually makes something ‘flushable’? These products cost New York City millions of dollars per year Share this story totally fine to flush those wipes down the toilet, the packaging claims. No problem at all. But according to sewage plants and wastewater experts, those so-called “flushable” products are actually a big problem. They might be flushable enough to snake through the toilet’s plumbing, but they don’t disintegrate before they reach the various channels, tanks, and propellers at sewage plants. Instead, they clump up on everything they hit — clogging up the syst...
Some research has gotten a huge boost during the pandemic Mary Beth Griggs © Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Billions of dollars have been spent fighting the pandemic, with a huge proportion of that money going towards vaccine development. Other areas of research have also gotten a big boost during the pandemic — and the results could make a huge difference to public health in the future. Popular Searches Here are some of the big winners in the pandemic-inspired funding race. mRNA Vaccines — The astounding success of both the Pfizer / BioNtech and Moderna vacci...
Compiled by The following files were selected by Verge staff in November 2020. The stories contained are by no means exhaustive; they are a few snapshots of life in 2020. Within this file folder are the original assets included in the time capsule, as well as a video exploring the capsule’s storage medium: synthetic DNA. ------------------------ artemis_accords: Established a common set of principles to govern the civil exploration and use of outer space; signed October 13th, 2020. bank_message: Bank phone menu recording, October 2020. DM_2_goodbye: Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken ...